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By Sam Johnson

What books make a difference?What books should we recommend to our children, our friends?The conclusion reached by the Sabines is that there really is "no way to predict which books will make a difference, to whom, at what ages, or in what kinds of situations."However, they do maintain that people who read, will ultimately come upon books that will have a profound impact on them in some way, and that these experiences will happen at different stages of their life and continue throughout it as long as they continue to be readers.For this reason then, they emphasize the importance of books and "the reading experience," which includes sharing our reading experiences with others.